Understanding a Home Inspection is designed as a guide for consumers as well as inspectors. Use of the guide should promote a better understanding of inspected systems and components while creating a consistency of inspection quality. Within Understanding A Home Inspection a home is divided into thirteen sections. Each section is then broken down into individual systems and components, 116 areas of inspection in all. Each and every one of the 116 listed areas of inspection contains a stand alone set of guidelines. When put together, these guidelines are the essentials that lay the foundation for home inspection. Reading this guide will not make you a home inspector, but should give you a better understanding of the inspected systems and components of a home. Home Sellers and Home Buyers will use this guide in determining the condition of a home. Home Inspectors will use this guide to achieve a better understanding of the essentials of home inspection.